1. Resourceful, Evaluative, Maximizing Man, as William Meckling and I have labeled him. REMM is to be distinguished from sociological man, psychological man, and political man. For a detailed discussion of these issues
2. H. Meckling, “Values and the Choice of the Model of the Individual in the Social Sciences,” Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 4 (1976): 545–560.
3. Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy (New York: Harper & Row, 1957), p. 245.
4. R. H. Coase, “The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas,” American Economic Review 64 (1974): 384–391.